Publisher's Synopsis
I had just finished the adventure of a lifetime bicycling through England, Scotland, Wales and France in the summer of 1979, but had no inkling of what my future held. I returned to Seattle with no job and little money to my name, didn't own a car and was living with Jim on Queen Anne Hill. My future was looking bleak. I'd rolled the dice and gambled everything on completing my long held dream of traveling across the Atlantic to bicycle in the U.K. and France, all the while knowing I'd have nothing waiting for me on my return to the Pacific Northwest - yet I was willing to risk everything for a dream.I'd once again enrolled in 'The School of Hard Knocks' during a series of mini-adventures that would give me the adrenaline rush of adventure and take me to the top of the world again, yet set me up to fail due to my overconfidence in my own abilities and loyalty to others. It was the story of my life all over again, from the highest highs to the lowest lows and everything in-between while pursuing adventure at all cost.Sometimes in life when you've lost your way and have no clue about the future, the best thing to do is simply nothing at all. That's exactly where I was following my solo-bicycle adventure to England, Scotland, Wales and France in the summer of 1979, with no idea of the direction to my future or any concept of what I should do with my life. My entire focus at the time was to procrastinate and delay making any decisions about a future I knew nothing about, thinking the longer I put it off the better. This is the story of how I crisscrossed the U.S. on transcontinental trips, traveled to Puerto Rico to meet a friend I'd only just met to go SCUBA diving in the Atlantic and discovered new ways to fail miserably despite having the best intentions in the world to succeed... Cheers! Mark
